Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think I can do it again, but it's going to be very difficult. The field is to be exceptionally strong because of the presence of the British Curtis Cup team. . . . Any one of a number of girls can succeed if they happen to be on top of their game. . . . Maureen may have the stuff this time. . . . None of us can quite match Glenna...
...Defending Champion Van Wie had defeated "Glenna" (Glenna Collett Vare), who had had her second baby in two years three months before the tournament started. "Maureen" (squarejawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J.) had been beaten in the third round, and all but one member of the British Curtis Cup team had been put out the first day of match play. Playing skillfully against an opponent who, almost unknown before the tournament started, now seemed very likely to take the third major U. S. golf title of the year back to California, Miss Van Wie evened the match...
...film rendition of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," now being shown at the Metropolitan Theatre, the whimsical flavor of the Alice Hegan Rice classic has been brought to the screen intact. It is a story of life in a small Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized...
Yacht races for the America's Cup in the 19th Century were customarily accompanied by bitterness and suspicion. That the tradition of rancor had stoutly survived the 31-year period in which the late Sir Thomas Lipton made five amiably unsuccessful attempts to win the Cup was evident last fortnight when Rainbow completed its defense against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Skipper Sopwith sharply expressed his dissatisfaction when the New York Yacht Club's Race Committee refused to hear his protest after the fourth race. Both Rainbow and Endeavour finished the sixth race with protest flags...
...like this. I feel completely disillusioned by my treatment at the hands of the Race Committee. We came to the United States to try to make yachting a great sport..... It is a business-a great thriving business-and we in England . . . can never win the America's Cup until we make it a business, too." He said that he had flown a protest flag in the last race principally to gain a hearing for his previous protest, had withdrawn it because after leading at the start, Endeavour had been fairly beaten in the race. To newshawks he announced...